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LIR: After spending the past week restoring our church server and helping a friend restore their computer, the $100/year (or less)

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Aug 2 '10, 08:31

for unlimited online backups from places like Crashplan seems like a pittance compared to the heartache, time lost, and loss that comes from actually losing data

I guess I'm not totally surprised, but with all that is digital in our lives now, people don't take nearly as good of care with their stuff as they should

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I'd love a cloud backup service. However my connection limits would also be a problem. - celedhring Aug 2, 08:54 4
- Apart from the initial load, I would think the average transfer for the updated bits would be very low -- nm - oblique Aug 2, 08:56 3
  - Yeah, problem being that I have around 500 Gb in data. - celedhring Aug 2, 09:03 2
    - It costs a little more but Crashplan will let you seed up to 1TB of data to them on temporary drive they ship to you and you ship back -- nm - oblique Aug 2, 09:06 1
      - I will look into it, then. to be honest I'm a bit tired of lurching those backup drives around. - celedhring Aug 2, 09:11
I'd love to have that, but my transfer limit could potentially make it a lot more expensive -- nm - Guigue Aug 2, 08:34
Also, LIR: Ender. That's horrible. And people ask me why I feel the need for off-site backups. *that* is exactly why -- nm - oblique Aug 2, 08:32 2
- Yeah, stealing the backup drive too just seems mean. It just occurred to me that my Turbo Tax files were on that computer. That could be trouble ID Theft-wise... crap... -- nm - Ender Aug 2, 08:37 1
  - Also makes my friend that TrueCrypts his drive not seem like such a wacko now -- nm - oblique Aug 2, 08:43

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LIR: After spending the past week restoring our church server and helping a friend restore their computer, the $100/year (or less)

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